We have an old honeysuckle bush in our front yard twisting up a pipe 10 feet into the air. Planted by the previous owners, the orange-red flowers spreading out five feet around attract hummingbirds to ...

Steve Daniel sent photos of a green heron preparing to take flight at Pleasure House Point in Virginia Beach. A Cooper’s hawk gave Morgan Ringer a surprise when it swooped down at her while she was ...

A viewer sent in this rather unique photo Wednesday, commenting: “I cut lilacs … today and put the vase on the hood of my car until I was ready to leave. My son informed me not to take the bug with us ...

In gardens throughout the Midwest, a type of moth is often mistaken for a hummingbird — the hummingbird moth. This moth looks almost identical to a hummingbird at first glance, but after you take a ...

Late summer brings an amazing insect to our flower gardens across the United States. It is the sphinx moth, also called the hawk moth or hummingbird moth. No matter what you call it, this is a large ...

It is the middle of a warm summer day, the whine of a lawn mower is a counterpoint to the incessant buzz and hum of endless hordes of bees rising and falling toward the phlox, bee balm, Queen Anne's ...

At any point in time a subject under inspection may be in a transitory state which soon passes into a form more representative of the creature’s primary existence, but very different from its starting ...

Question: I have been seeing many caterpillars in my garden with a small horn on the tip of the body — they are black and yellow. What is this insect? Will it damage my garden? Answer: White-lined ...

If you're like me and can't stop gardening until late in the evening, you might luck out and see a rare hummingbird moth. Hummingbird moths are actually white-lined sphinx moths. They fly just like ...

Jewel-toned wings gleam in the sun as this bauble of a bug flits from flower to flower. Fast and furious wingbeats, as many as seventy per second, produce an audible hum as it hovers, sipping nectar.

Juvenile hummingbirds began leaving their nests about two weeks ago, so activity at my nectar feeders has surged. Where a month ago, I had four or five hummers coming to my feeders, that number has ...